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KAPRE

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K  A P R E mimi illenberger mapa While doing research for his dissertation on folk healing, a former teacher stumbled on several  strange tales involving supernatural beings, prompting him to suggest to his peers in graduate school that perhaps the university  “should look into the feasibility of offering courses in parapsychology so that students will  have enlightened information on phenomena which science  is still hesitant to certify as worthy of investigation.” This particular tale I wish to share with my readers today  began in a university campus more than a decade ago and simply refused to die down. As the years rolled by , the stories involving the creature  even became more scary as more people came forward  to add their own experience to it; the teacher felt the case was indeed worthy of investigation. This is the story of a kapre ( the name used in  Philippine folk lore for the  mythical tree-sitting demon)  who inhabited a school building down south. Right sm